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Scott Clark
Bringing Jobs to the Cloud...
Post Date: October 11, 2011 @ 8:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Steve Jobs has been an inspiration to many, but some argue that bringing that creativity and out-of-the-box thinking to emerging technology areas far outside of the mobile world can be of great value.
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti
Cloud Computing in the Land of the Dragon
Post Date: September 21, 2011 @ 5:44 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti shares insights about cloud computing in China following a recent trip and talk for the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese institutions with an eye on the cloud.
Nicole Hemsoth
ISC Cloud: Interview with Chairman Wolfgang Gentzsch
Post Date: September 12, 2011 @ 11:15 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
ISC Cloud '11 in Mannheim, Germany is just around the corner. We caught up with the event's chairman, Wolfgang Getzsch to find out what to expect.
Steve Campbell
StackIQ Widens Net
Post Date: August 31, 2011 @ 6:19 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Steve Campbell spent time this week speaking with Tim McIntyre from StackIQ, which was once called ClusterCorp.
Nicole Hemsoth
LANL Sends Environmental Management to the Cloud
Post Date: July 19, 2011 @ 6:18 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Los Alamos National Lab recently announced their contract with Locus Technologies to outsource environmental management to a cloud-based service provider. We spoke with Locus CEO, Neno Duplan about what LANL might gain--and how this provides an interesting software as a service use case.
Nicole Hemsoth
Cloud-Based Drug Discovery Platforms Proliferate
Post Date: June 18, 2011 @ 3:12 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
As pharmaceutical companies grow more comfortable with the cloud concept, services providing outsourcing of discovery and collaboration are set to grow.
Nicole Hemsoth
An Impetus for Big Data Clouds
Post Date: May 20, 2011 @ 9:43 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Big data and cloud computing are often being used in the same sentence, even though there are still some barriers that separate the two. We talked to Vineet Tyagi from Impetus Technologies to learn more...
Scott Clark
New Season, Same Umbrella
Post Date: May 16, 2011 @ 11:27 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Scott Clark argues that the more similar that we can make cloud infrastructures to the enterprise infrastructures we have today, the more comfortable customers will be with using cloud from a security perspective.
Nicole Hemsoth
Oracle's Vertical Line to Life Sciences, Healthcare
Post Date: May 03, 2011 @ 8:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Oracle honed its focus on key markets to convince users that cost, security and compliance, are best handled in a specialized cloud environment.
Nicole Hemsoth
Public Cloud Outage Sparks Fresh Debate
Post Date: May 10, 2011 @ 11:33 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: Behind the Cloud
Today's extensive outage at Amazon data centers on the East coast brought AWS some unwanted attention. Major websites and services ground to a halt, sparking a fresh round of questions about relying on clouds for mission or business-critical operations...
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Behind the Cloud Contributors
Earl J. Dodd, President of Ideas And Machines, Inc. and i3D Inc.
Independent HPC consultant for cluster, grid, and cloud computing, and for data and compute-intensive applications, and General Chair of the ISC Cloud Conference.
Dr. Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti is Assistant Professor in Computer Architecture at Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), and a Cloud Computing Researcher at the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group. He is directly involved in EU funded projects, such as EGEE (Grid Computing) and 4CaaSt (PaaS Cloud), as well as many Spanish national initiatives.
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An HPC industry consultant and cloud evangelist, Steve Campbell is a seasoned senior HPC executive.
Former Director of Information Technology for Pfizer's R&D division, current CIO for BRMaches & Associates.
Sue Korn is a Senior Analyst at Intersect360 Research specializing in Edge HPC applications, and a 20-year veteran of the Financial Services Industry. In her role at Intersect360 Research, Korn spearheads the company's analysis of the drivers and barriers of HPC adoption in business environments and the growing role of Edge HPC applications.
Scott Clark has been an infrastructure solution provider in the EDA/Semiconductor industry for almost 20 years.
Ignacio M. Llorente, Ph.D in Computer Science (UCM) and Executive MBA (IE Business School), is a Full Professor in Computer Architecture and Technology, and the Head of the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group at Complutense University of Madrid.
Joshua Geist is the founder and CEO of Geminare Incorporated, an innovator in cloud-based enablement technologies for the Recovery as a Service market. Combining a degree in Physics with over 20 years of technology experience, Joshua's passion lies in solving technology challenges for the mid-sized business market.
Miha Ahronovitz specializes in cloud software, products and business models and led product and business strategy for Sun Microsystem’s HPCGrid and Cloud division. Following Sun’s merger, Miha is now the Principal of Ahrono Associates.
Edward J. Lucente is V.P. of Business Development at Data Center Rebates, Inc., an IT efficiency consultancy based in Carlsbad, CA, whose professional services focus on data center energy efficiency (DCEE), leasing integrated with technology refreshes, and negotiation of IT energy rebates. (Ed is a rabid Red Sox fan also.)
Craig Lund is a consultant focused on specialized markets for High Performance Computing. He is best known from his many years as CTO of Mercury Computer Systems.
Jake is a software executive, writer and blogger. Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, he is currently the chief marketing officer for rPath. Feel free to contact Jake via email at jsorofman@rpath.com
Tom is the publisher of HPC in the Cloud. He has over 30 years of experience in business-to-business publishing, with the last 22 years focused primarily on High Productivity Computing (HPC) technologies.
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SLA-Aware Scheduling and Virtual Efficiency
Researchers from the Suddhananda Engineering and Research Centre in Bhubaneswar, India developed a job scheduling system, which they call Service Level Agreement (SLA) scheduling, that is meant to achieve acceptable methods of resource provisioning similar to that of potential in-house systems. They combined that with an on-demand resource provisioner to ensure utilization optimization of virtual machines.
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CloudSigma CEO Elaborates on Science Cloud
Experimental scientific HPC applications are continually being moved to the cloud, as covered here in several capacities over the last couple of weeks. Included in that rundown, Co-founder and CEO of CloudSigma Robert Jenkins penned an article for HPC in the Cloud where he discussed the emergence of cloud technologies to supplement research capabilities of big scientific initiatives like CERN and ESA (the European Space Agency)...
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Examining Questions of Virtualization and Security in the Cloud
When considering moving excess or experimental HPC applications to a cloud environment, there will always be obstacles. Were that not the case, the cost effectiveness of cloud-based HPC would rule the high performance landscape. Jonathan Stewart Ward and Adam Barker of the University of St. Andrews produced an intriguing report on the state of cloud computing, paying a significant amount of attention to the problems facing cloud computing.
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Short Takes
Hacking into the N-Queens Problem with Virtualization
Jun 19, 2013 |
Ruan Pethiyagoda, Cameron Boehmer, John S. Dvorak, and Tim Sze, trained at San Francisco’s Hack Reactor, an institute designed for intense fast paced learning of programming, put together a program based on the N-Queens algorithm designed by the University of Cambridge’s Martin Richards, and modified it to run in parallel across multiple machines.
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Datapipe and Verne Global's Green Cloud
Jun 17, 2013 |
With that in mind, Datapipe hopes to establish themselves as a green-savvy HPC cloud provider with their recently announced Stratosphere platform. Datapipe markets Stratosphere as a green HPC cloud service and in doing so partnering with Verne Global and their Icelandic datacenter, which is known for its propensity in green computing.
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IBM's Guide to Cloud Based HPC
Jun 12, 2013 |
Cloud computing is gaining ground in utilization by mid-sized institutions who are looking to expand their experimental high performance computing resources. As such, IBM released what they call Redbooks, in part to assist institutions’ movement of high performance computing applications to the cloud.
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